Comparison

Dice Flash vs Smart Sudoku

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Dice Flash

Enjoy thrilling dice matches with friends and family anytime, anywhere. Compete in local multiplayer, challenge AI, and customize your game with different cups and dice. Experience classic dice fun with a digital twist.

Highlights
  • Local multiplayer for up to 4 players
  • Challengeable AI opponent
  • Customizable cups and dice
  • Classic dice gameplay
  • Playable offline
Features
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Dice Flash: Your Go-To Multiplayer Game! If you want to play some dice on the go, you've come to the right place! Jump into the thrilling world of Dice Flash! Whether you’re out and about or chilling at home, you can enjoy epic matches with friends and family. In a train, on a plane, commuting or travelling for fun, it doesn't matter with Dice Flash - a game that's always available in your pocket. Nothing beats the excitement of a local multiplayer showdown in Dice Flash! Go head-to-head with your buddies to score the highest combos and claim victory. With the revamped Dice Flash, the fun follows you everywhere! Pick your character, roll those dice, and who knows, you might just need a third roll... or even a fourth! Put your skills to the test and see if you can conquer Dice Flash! Play with up to 4 players in local multiplayer mode against your friends or family. Customize your game by choosing cups and dice you like most! No one around to play? No problem! Challenge our clever AI and see if you can outsmart it! The AI learns how you play and becomes increasingly competitive the more you play and improve your skills. No tricks, no cheats, just pure, classic dice fun with your pals! Schmidt Spiele, our licensing partner, is famous for classic board games such as Kniffel, Ludo, Chess, Checkers, and Backgammon.. At b-interaktive, we’re all about bringing your favorite board games into the digital age, making them super easy to enjoy anytime, anywhere. Love strategy with a dash of the unexpected? Dive into Dice Flash, our digital twist on the classic game! Dice Flash is also known as Yahtzee, and similar games include Kniffel, Escalero, Kismet, and Pasch.

About

Smart Sudoku

This app offers advanced Sudoku solving assistance by identifying complex patterns and providing professional tips to eliminate candidates. It features a unique scoring system based on solution efficiency and allows for quick manual puzzle entry and import.

Highlights
  • Powerful hint system for solving strategies
  • Fast manual puzzle entry
  • Simultaneous multiple square handling
  • Show/hide candidates
  • Innovative efficiency-based scoring
  • Import puzzles from text and internet
  • Unlimited undo/redo
Features
Currently charting
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Are you familiar with terms like "X-Wing", "2-String Kite", or "Locked Candidates"? If yes, Smart Sudoku is for you. If not, even more so. Unlike most Sudoku apps, Smart Sudoku helps you solve tough puzzles by not simply revealing cell solutions, but by giving you professional tips. It tells you what patterns to look for in order to eliminate candidates. Smart Sudokus' unique scoring system ranks your solution not by the time you spent, but by how efficiently you solved the puzzle. Smart Sudoku comes with hundreds of challenging puzzles built-in. Copying a puzzle from a newspaper is a breeze – think of typing in a few phone numbers. "Excellent. Very simple to enter puzzles from the newspaper. Candidate numbers are displayed, allowing solutions to really tough puzzles to be solved without the laborious job of setting up candidates." (UK user) Features: • Powerful hint system based on the most popular solving strategies • Very fast manual puzzle entry method (typically 40 seconds or less) • Multiple squares may be handled simultaneously • Show or hide candidates anytime while solving the puzzle • Innovative scoring, based on efficiency of solving instead of time spent • Copy/paste puzzles in standard text format, incl. "HoDoKu Library Format" and "Simple Sudoku Format" • Import puzzles from the Internet • Share partially or fully solved puzzles via e-mail • 509 puzzles built-in, from easy to almost unsolvable • Unlimited undo/redo • Built-in user's manual • Landscape mode (iPad, Mac, Vision Pro) Hints Learn how to eliminate candidates by finding standard patterns. Let Smart Sudoku tell you what pattern to look for next. Still stuck? Smart Sudoku can even show you the squares and numbers involved. The affected squares are selected automatically, so eliminating candidates is a snap. Patterns handled by Smart Sudoku include: • Naked and Hidden Singles, Pairs, Triples, Quads, and Quintuples • Locked Candidates Type 1 and 2 • X-Wing • XY-Wing • XYZ-Wing • W-Wing • Skyscraper • 2-String Kite • Swordfish • Jellyfish • Empty Rectangle • Unique Rectangle Type 1 and 2 Input checking After copying a printed puzzle, Smart Sudoku will tell you whether the puzzle has a unique solution or not (usually caused by a typo or missing number.) Efficient solving Smart Sudoku helps you solve Sudokus in a professional way. Never add candidates, only remove them, even from multiple squares in one step. Should you ever get stuck (and no hints are available), let Smart Sudoku solve any square you wish. Or all squares for a given number. Or even the entire puzzle. Novel scoring method Unlike many Sudoku apps, Smart Sudoku rates your efficiency in solving a puzzle, not how quickly you do it. Solve one square at a time and your score will remain at zero. Solve as many squares as possible for a given number simultaneously and watch the progress bar grow. To get the maximum of 1000 points requires you to finish each number in a single step. The current score is shown in the title. Share puzzles Send an e-mail of a puzzle at any stage to your friends. If partially or fully solved, they'll also get the original puzzle. And, of course, they'll see your score, even a message about your making use of candidates. Recipients may paste the puzzle into their own copy of Smart Sudoku. Puzzles from the Internet Smart Sudoku supports the well-established text format for Sudokus (a string of 81 digits and decimal points), as well as export formats used by programs like HoDoKu and Simple Sudoku, giving you access to thousands of puzzles available on the Internet. Just download the text strings and paste them into Smart Sudoku.

Screenshots

Dice Flash4 screens
Smart Sudoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Smart Sudoku at 5.0 against Dice Flash's 3.0. Smart Sudoku also leads on price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and chart position (#193 vs unranked). Dice Flash's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Dice Flash costs $4.99 and Smart Sudoku $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smart Sudoku holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Dice Flash's written reviews are positive against 60% of Smart Sudoku's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dice Flash ships an update every 3 months, Smart Sudoku every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Dice Flash versus Smart Sudoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDice FlashSmart Sudoku
Price$4.99$0.99 — better
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#193 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size176 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerb-interaktive GmbHCuVee Software

Customer experience

Dice Flash

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral14.3%
Negative9.5%

Smart Sudoku

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dice Flash

No in-app purchases

None

Smart Sudoku

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dice Flash free?
Dice Flash costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smart Sudoku free?
Smart Sudoku costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dice Flash or Smart Sudoku?
Smart Sudoku is rated higher. Dice Flash averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Smart Sudoku averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Dice Flash or Smart Sudoku have ads?
Neither Dice Flash nor Smart Sudoku shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dice Flash or Smart Sudoku?
Dice Flash ships an update every 3 months, and Smart Sudoku every 9 months. Most recently, Dice Flash was updated on October 14, 2026 and Smart Sudoku on October 12, 2026.

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